BLACK, Isobel ^{2 3}

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  General Notes:

"BLACK
ISOBEL
WILLIAM BLACK/
F
10/04/1744
221
10 / 461
Methlick"

from Births and Baptisms




Isobel Black was a domestic servant at the castle of Fyvie. She had a son by General William Gordon, the laird, and the child was legitimised by the later marriage of the couple.

from Fyvie Castle, Garden and Estate ^{2 3}

Isobel married Colonel William GORDON 1st of Fyvie, son of William GORDON 2nd Earl of Aberdeen and Anne GORDON.¹ (Colonel William GORDON 1st of Fyvie was baptised on 4 May 1736 in Methlick parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland,^{3 5} died on 25 May 1816 ^{2 4} and was buried in 1816 in Fyvie Cemetery, Aberdeenshire, Scotland ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Fyvie was purchased in 1726 by William Gordon, second Earl of Aberdeen, K.T., who married as his third wife Lady Anne Gordon, daughter of Alexander, second Duke of Gordon. By his marriage contract with this lady, he became bound to settle an estate of a certain value upon her eldest son. In implement of this condition, he bequeathed Fyvie to the eldest son of the marriage - General the Honourable William Gordon. He was for many years a Member of Parliament and Groom of the Bed Chamber to George III. A tablestone within a railed enclosure on the south side of Fyvie Church commemorates him and his lady and their only son, the inscription being -

'General the Honourable William Gordon of Fyvie, died 25th May, 1816, aged 80. And the Honble. Mrs Gordon of Fyvie, died 3rd June, 1824, aged 80. Also William Gordon of Fyvie, their only son, who died 9th January, 1847, aged 71'."

from Aberdeenshire Epitaphs and Inscriptions ⁴